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Letters to Felice
  • Published: 15 June 1999
  • ISBN: 9780749399481
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 608
  • RRP: $47.00

Letters to Felice



Kafka's letters to Felice Bauer were written between 1912 and 1917, during which time they were twice engaged to be married. This complex relationship, which coincided with a period of great productivity for Kafka, gave him both hope and strength, but gradually disllusionment and the onset of illness drove them apart. These letters remain as a monument to the inner life of a creative artist.

  • Published: 15 June 1999
  • ISBN: 9780749399481
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 608
  • RRP: $47.00

About the author

Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka (1883–1924) was born into a Jewish family in Prague. In 1906 he received a doctorate in jurisprudence, and for many years he worked a tedious job as a civil service lawyer investigating claims at the State Worker's Accident Insurance Institute. He never married, and published only a few slim volumes of stories during his lifetime. Meditation, a collection of sketches, appeared in 1912; The Stoker: A Fragment in 1913; Metamorphosis in 1915; The Judgement in 1916; In the Penal Colony in 1919; and A Country Doctor in 1920. The great novels were not published until after his death from tuberculosis: America, The Trial and The Castle.

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